Seniors

Budget

Elderly New Yorkers Throng City Hall to Protest Proposed Cuts to Senior Centers

May 16, 2024, 5:52 p.m.May 16, 2024, 5:52 p.m.

Department for the Aging faces $80 million reduction on top of previous slashes to programs that provide free meals and social events.

Rosemary Whaley in Cambria Heights. Feb. 27, 2024.

Seniors

Tweak in City Contract Leaves Scores of Queens Residents Without Rides to Senior Centers

Feb. 29, 2024, 4:55 a.m.Feb. 29, 2024, 9:00 p.m.

Transportation providers say the Department for the Aging is no longer allowing them to use public funds for rides to and from the elderly community hubs.

Seniors

Green Gambit: Plant-Based Meals Mandated at Senior Centers Once a Week

Aug. 3, 2023, 5:00 a.m.Aug. 2, 2023, 9:13 p.m.

The city’s new menu requirements went into effect this summer and will affect millions of meals for older New Yorkers.

Elections

How the Mold in a Senior Center Spoiled Primary Votes in Throggs Neck

June 29, 2023, 8:39 p.m.June 29, 2023, 8:39 p.m.

Some elderly Bronxites at NYCHA’s Throggs Neck Houses chose not to cast ballots as their longtime polling site moved across the neighborhood as a beloved senior center remains closed.

Pools and Beaches

Flushing Aquatic Center Pool Finally Reopens After Three Years — But Not for Long

Feb. 27, 2023, 7:21 p.m.Feb. 27, 2023, 9:07 p.m.

With two other pools due to close, it may soon be the only Parks-operated indoor swimming pool open in Queens.

Courts

Older Judges Would Get Stronger Job Protections Under Bill on Governor’s Desk

Dec. 21, 2022, 5:23 p.m.Dec. 22, 2022, 10:13 a.m.

After sweeping layoffs of judges who reached the standard retirement age of 70, state lawmakers step in — despite concerns that problematic people could remain on the bench.

How to New York

How to Check in on Neighbors During a Heat Wave — And Possibly Save a Life

July 22, 2022, 5:41 p.m.June 17, 2024, 2:36 p.m.

Experts say New Yorkers should come with specific, explicit questions and plans on what to do next.

Seniors

Manhattan Nursing Home Staff and Food Cut Back as For-Profit Operator Moves In, Workers Say

Sept. 12, 2021, 7:10 p.m.Sept. 12, 2021, 7:11 p.m.

A pending sale of VillageCare’s West Houston Street’s facility to Cassena Care has brought a drop in quality and morale at the nonprofit facility, workers and a recent patient contend.

Hunger

NYC’s ‘GetFood’ Free Meal-Delivery Service to End This Fall

Aug. 31, 2021, 8:53 p.m.Aug. 31, 2021, 9:58 p.m.

The popular pandemic-inspired program for senior citizens and homebound New Yorkers who can’t afford delivery will shut down when fed funding ends in October, THE CITY has learned.

Seniors

Elderly New Yorkers Throng City Hall to Protest Proposed Cuts to Senior Centers

Tweak in City Contract Leaves Scores of Queens Residents Without Rides to Senior Centers

Green Gambit: Plant-Based Meals Mandated at Senior Centers Once a Week

How the Mold in a Senior Center Spoiled Primary Votes in Throggs Neck

Flushing Aquatic Center Pool Finally Reopens After Three Years — But Not for Long

Older Judges Would Get Stronger Job Protections Under Bill on Governor’s Desk

How to Check in on Neighbors During a Heat Wave — And Possibly Save a Life

Manhattan Nursing Home Staff and Food Cut Back as For-Profit Operator Moves In, Workers Say

NYC’s ‘GetFood’ Free Meal-Delivery Service to End This Fall

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